The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15
THE WEEKS NEWS.

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Mr.. Blaine with his wife and daughters
sailed for Europe last week,
The great bridge over the Tay has been
completed at a cost of 100000.
famine is imminent throughout the
Persian provinces of Khorassan,
'One death from yellow fever and no
new cases." says the bulletin from Key
West.
The French Government will oppose the
proposition for the election of the Senate
by universal suffrage.
Fifty-three persons are believed TO have
heen killed by an explosion of fire damp in
a Westphalia colliery.
The next convention of the American
Bankers Association will be held at Pitts
burg-on October II and ID.
At Quebec, Canada, the Coroner's Jury
brought in verdict of murder against Mrs.
lie Grace for poisoning her husband.
The net increase in the amount of coin
and currency in circulation in this o0un.
try for the year ended May 81 is $5S.566,-
5i5.
The Lutheran General Synod have de-
cided to hold the next biennial con-
vention of the General Synod at Allegheny
City.
Colored men are to be admitted to the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, from which they have hitherto
been excluded.
The two-year-old son of Samuel Steel
man, of Newport, KY, died from the effects
of oil of wintergreen ian ointment), OF
which he had eaten.
Statesman "Billee Chandler" was nomi-
mated for the short term senatorship by the
Republican legislative caucus at Concord,
y. g., last Thursday.
The pope will present Queen Victoria, in
honor of her jubilee, "a mosaic reproduc-
ton of Raphaels fresco, representing an
allegorical figure OF poetry"
Judge Lawrence, in the test case of the
New York hotel-keepers held that the
serving of wines with meals on Sunday was
in violation of the excise law.
A Philadelphia judge has refused to
compel the placing of ticker in
''bucket-shop" in that city, on the ground
that it is gambling institution.
Aaron L. Sill, a Pennsylvania colored
man, who became famous in connection
with the underground railways of ante
bellum times, died at Reading last week.
A great many sheep are being sent to
Chicago from Texas. The sell chiefly at
g to s. 40 per 100 pounds, and very poor
hocks are sometimes sold as low as 81 80.
Charles Spencer, formerly a Chicago
real estate dealer, has been indicted at
Pierre, Dakota, for cattle-siealing. He is
one Of the prominent men OF the Territory.
The Illinois Legislature has passed bill
prohibiting the sale of tobacco to children
under sixteen years of age, except upon
written orders from their parents or guard
hans.
Professor II. c. Hardy, convicted at Ko-
keno, Ind, of an outrage on an eight
yearold girl, committed last July, was
sentenced to seventeen years in the peni-
| tertiary.
The receipts at the Chicago stock yards
| Thursday were 9 600 cattle, % 600 hogs and
| 1880 sheep. Prices were firm for good
stock, but common cattle showed declin-
| ing tendency.
Hogs were of cents per 100 pounds last
| Wednesday in Chicago, owing to large re-
\ ceipts. Chicago packers we're not buying
I as heavily as usual, and sOme 5000 swine
| were left ur sold.
The postmaster at Chicago has been in
structed to deny the facilities of the money
order and registered-letter departments to
/ the Chicago Farm Journal, an alleged
fraudulent enterprise.
Joseph Huderle, formerly a school
| teacher of Shelby County, Ohio, who is
charged with the ruin of twenty or thirty
/ DbIle SlIlS MUO WeI6 us CdIcg uhc
been arrested at Toledo.
The Chicago provision trade continues
to grow in strength. Lard and short ribs
were again materially higher Thursday,
/ and for June delivery the former closed at
| So z and short ribs at $7.65.
Cattle declined from 10 to 10 cents per
/ 100 pounds last Friday in Chicago, owing
| to large receipts at the stock-yards. Hogs
were plenty and active at a small advance.
Sheep were scarce and advancing.
DR.. c. r. Bacon, who committed suicide
at Minneapolis Wednesday, was impelled
| to the act by the refusal of his wife to take
| b medicines, having placed herself under
the treatment of christian scientist"
The town of Vernome, in Turkistan,
| Asia, has been almost destroyed by an
earthquake. One hundred and twenty-five
persons were killed, and an equal number
injured. The shocks continue at intervals.
Robert Stocker and Frank w. Hibbs,
both OF Minnesota, and Elliott Snow, OF
| Utah, carry off the honors in the class of
| 81 at the naval academy. f. r. Skunk, of
Philadelphia, leads the graduating class at
West Point.
The sensation on Chicago Change Thurs
day was an Irregular market for Juoe
wheat and large sales OF the same by one
CLIQUE house to another. For the option
and SO cents. The closing quotation was
92L cents.
The inquest in the case of Mrs. Lillian
Rivers, who was shot and killed in Phila-
delph;a by Robert G. Hall, resulted in a
| verdict charging Hill with the woman's
death. He was committed to prison to
await the action of the Grand Jury. Mrs.
Rivers was buried at the expense of the
! county.
A terrific storm recently passed over
parts of South Carolina. Several days
afterward the surface of Lake Dawhoo,
which lay in its path, was covered with
Gsad fish, and its waters, which had before
been "clear, soft and pleasant to the taste, -
had changed to an ipky hue and become
''as bitter as quinine."
last fall Mrs. Albert Brooks, of Juuiata,
Mich, went to Denver to receive $50, 600
| and other property, her interest in an
| urcle's estate. She has not returned to her
home, and efforts to find her have not
awaited. 1t is supposed she has been kid.
mapped and is being held until her captors
/ get all her money from her.
The Pail Mall Gazette, in a hysterical
/ leader, urges every member of the House
/ OF Commons, from Gladstone down." who
opposes the Government proposition to
/ terminate proceedings on the coercion
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